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September 2013

by Kärt Tomberg. Humans, like all vertebrates, have a closed cardiovascular system where blood circulates under pressure. To maintain the integrity of this system in the case of injuries, vertebrates have developed a complex blood clotting mechanism capable of closing wounds. Without such a capability, humans would literally bleed to death from even a small…

by Juan Eugenio Iglesias. The hippocampus is a brain component that plays a very important role in memory. We have two of them – as shown in Figure 1; one on the left side of the brain, and another on the right side. The hippocampus is a structure of much interest for the neuroscience community, partly due…